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Agent Brown appeared briefly in a flashback, but was not mentioned by name.

So, I’ve been really getting into a webcomic lately, The Bully’s Bully. I caught it from one of the ads that run on the site, and been following it regularly since. It’s a silent comic about a little girl with an empathy-based superpower to detect and share the pain of bullying victims. Good read so far.

Inspections like that always feel like inviting thieves in to case the house while you’re watching, with the fishhook that “if everything’s in good enough order, we won’t be back for another month–or two!” It feels like keeping your house and life in order is buying insurance from a federally funded mafia Family.

So it’s a diceless RPG? Neat… seems like a lead-in to more standard tabletops. Leads me to a lot of questions about the psychology of selkie’s race though… brain function and logic patterns and learning structures…

worst thing about massive amounts of curiosity: a driving desire to know the “how and why” behind everything…

I’m pretty sure there are dice involved. Each character has stats, and so I’m guessing there are probably feats as well. It’ll probably be very simple stuff though.
So, it’s not “diceless” so much as “most of the work is done for you”.

Re : The Game
Sounds like it could be fun. Though I’m curious how The Baron is supposed to secretly corrupt players. I know there are rules against acting on info have but aren’t supposed(ie: conversation your character wasn’t around for), but I can’t imagine that working well with 8-year-olds. Probably why they didn’t mention the “Judas” victory. Because anytime someone went for it it turned into “Last Man Standing”.
On that note, I can imagine how frsutrating it must be a for a good player to see another player get stabbed in the back, but have to buy the “he fell in a trap” excuse because their character doesn’t know any better.

Re “Agent Brown”: I think Todd’s expression is due to a lot of things. He’s been doing very well at taking care of Selkie so far, the custom shoes for example, but he’s probably still a little worried he’ll be found lacking(and Selkie will be taken away). Then, of course, there is the whole MIB thing and the idea that he may be being watched more than he thought. And top all that off with a big dollop of, “What have I gotten myself into?”

Re “Then how is it horror?”: that is probably the best response to a response to the question “is it satanic?” I’ve ever heard.

Re “thematics”: was that reading of the game’s set up over Todd looking at the inspection sheet and finding out about Agent Brown intended to be significant, or did it just end up that way?